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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But consider that these days the old stereotypes about college athletes generally don’t hold true anymore.  In fact, GPA and graduation rates for athletes in sports like volleyball are actually higher than in the general student body.  If you’d like to read more on the topic, there’s a great article at [url]https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/socf.12967[/url][/quote]
It's easy to cherry-pick articles that appear to make your point. When you want to have this type of conversations, besides a link to the article, you should also provide a quote that summarizes the point you are trying to make (look what I will be doing next). Not everyone has the time to read an entire article and not everyone is able to interpret the data.

The fact that the student athletes manage to graduate with similar GPA as the non-athletes doesn't tell the whole story. Here is a link to an article (https://doi.org/10.70252/FIJG1609) that concludes that "[i]The results of this study sheds light on an important dynamic between athletic identity and academic major selection amongst student-athletes. This dynamic, although [b]seen across all divisions and sports[/b], largely impacts student-athletes who possess a higher degree of athletic identity. This higher degree not only limits the academic scope of student-athletes, but the scope of career preparations and exploration is limited as well. Through academic clustering, overemphasizing the athletic identity of being a student-athlete, and lack of academic and career exploration, student-athletes are finding themselves choosing academic majors with less rigor. By using rigor, or lack thereof, as the basis of academic major selection, student-athletes are choosing to place their athletic career over their academic and/or professional career. This decision negatively impacts academic and career satisfaction, along with future earning potential within their respective career fields.[/i]"

And here is a statement that perfectly explains the results of the study you linked to: "[i]Placing a strong emphasis on meeting the APR requirement is commendable. However, by funneling student-athletes into specific majors due to their lowered rigor and flexibility when scheduling around practice and travel, while also disregarding the interests and goals of the student-athletes, is detrimental to their academic and career trajectories (20). By overemphasizing the role of being an athlete, student-athlete unknowingly create a psychosocial divide between their academic and athletic identities. If this divide leads student-athletes to identify more with their role as an athlete, it can lead to a downward trend in academic output, such as lower grade point averages (GPA) and overall effort put into academics (2). This lowered effort and downward trend in GPAs would negatively impact the APR and GSR, but due to strategic placement in less rigorous majors, the negative trends are successfully prevented.[/i]"[/quote]

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